On 8/31/2010 10:54 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> From: Fernando Gont<fernando@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> email
> was a couple of FTP commands?
That was more back in the NCP days (prior to TCP/IP). SMTP came in about the
time TCP/IP was really starting to roll (don't recall the exact timing, but
it would have been circa 1980 or so).
SMTP was defined in 1982. So was the DNS. It took both some years to gain
production levels of use of each. The Internet's TCP/IP had code start running
in 1976 and went into production operation in 1983.
Hence there was a period of time during which the Internet relied on the
original FTP-based mail commands. SMTP's primary enhancement was support for
multiple addressees per transaction. By and large, this improvement was
invisible to email users.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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